Gauguin returned to France from Tahiti in August 1893. The following summer, he traveled to Brittany, where he remained for some six months. Breton culture, infused with vestiges of its pagan Celtic past, appealed to his taste for the primitive and the exotic. The two-year interlude that was Gauguin’s last stay in France, from August…

50/365 "Treat nature by the cylinder, the sphere, the cone, everything in proper perspective so that each side of an object or a plane is directed towards a central point." -Paul Cezanne Posted by >dianecordell on 2017-02-19 15:49:36

At the Neue Galerie I was not allowed to photograph the famous Klimt portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer, which used to hang in the Belvedere in Vienna, Austria, but the Museum of Modern Art is very photographer-friendly. Gustav Klimt, Die Hoffnung, II (1907), oil, gold, and platinum on canvas, 1.105 x 1.105 m (3′ 7½"…

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC by navema www.navemastudios.com Cut and pasted newspaper, and charcoal, on two joined sheets of paper. Picasso in The Metropolitan Museum of Art: April 27, 2010–August 15, 2010 In September 1912, first Georges Braque and then Picasso began pasting colored or printed pieces of paper onto their compositions. These works,…

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC by navema www.navemastudios.com Oil on canvas. Picasso in The Metropolitan Museum of Art: April 27, 2010–August 15, 2010 "For me, it is I, and it is the only reproduction of me which is always I, for me." Thus wrote Gertrude Stein in 1938. For Stein, this painting was proof…

Detail of Aline Charigot from “By the Seashore” (1883) Oil on canvas By Auguste Renoir French, 1841-1919 Accession #: 29.100.125 Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, New York)—August 28, 2010 Like other artists who painted in an Impressionist style in the 1870s, Renoir eventually began to explore a different manner of painting. A trip to…